Facts & Stats

A new handgun is produced in the U.S. every 12 seconds. – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms estimate, 1994

15% of 6th through 12th graders surveyed said they had carried a handgun at some time during the prior 30 days. – Louis Harris research poll, 1999

In one survey, 45% of people arrested reported the illegal firearm market as a primary source for obtaining guns. – National Institute of Justice, Sept., 1995

On average, more than one woman every day of the year is shot and killed by her husband or intimate acquaintance during the course of an argument. – Analysis of 1996 Washington D.C. homicide data, Violence Policy Center, 1998

About 1.4 million homes with about 2.6 million children kept firearms in a place very accessible to children. – American Journal of Public Health, April, 2000

A murder of a household member is almost 3 times more likely to occur in homes with guns than homes without them. – Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Center for Gun Policy

58% of all unintentional firearm deaths involve young people 10-29 years old. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1994

Assaults on family and intimates involving firearms are 12 times more likely to result in death than are assaults using other types of weapons. – Saltzman, J. et al, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992, 267

In 1998, 30,708 people were killed by guns in the U.S. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July, 2000

A total of 3,792 kids 19 years or younger were killed by gunfire in 1998 – enough for more than 246 Columbines – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July, 2000

In 1996 and ’97 more Americans were killed by firearms than were killed in the entire 11 years of the Vietnam war – Firearm Injury Center, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1999

A gun in the home is 22 times more likely to be used to shoot a family member or a friend than an intruder – Kellerman et al., Journal of Trauma, 1998, 45.2

Women are 12 times more likey to be shot by a spouse or loved one than by a stranger – Saltzman et al., Journal of the American Medical Association, 1992: 267; FBI Supplementary Homicide Report, 1997

62% of shooters involved in homicides had alcohol in their blood. – American Journal of Forsenic Medicine and Pathology, analysis of 1982-85 data

In 1994, nearly 90% of homicide victims 15 to 19 years were killed with a firearm. – National Summary of Injury Mortality Data, CDC, 1987-94

In the U.S. ten children less than 20 years old are killed by handguns everyday. – National Center for Health Statistics, 1996

In 1994, nearly 90% of homicide victims 15 to 19 years were killed with a firearm. – National Summary of Injury Mortality Data, CDC, 1987-94

In the U.S. ten children less than 20 years old are killed by handguns everyday. – National Center for Health Statistics, 1996